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Bombinate
First though, they had to get through the conversation with Gibbs and actually get rid of the lawyers. Tony was currently ignoring the lawyers as they spoke. They were going on and on about how things looked good and that if things continued like this on future inspections the inheritance would be Tony’s.
Tony nodded at appropriate pauses in the conversation. Bishop listened just in case there was something shady, but when they came to a close without any signs of anything shady, Bishop just escorted them out the door and to their car. She chatted in her geeky way and they quickly left.
Returning to Tony, Bishop murmured, “No sign of Gibbs, yet.”
“He’s still got twenty minutes, but we have a problem.”
“What’s that?”
“The lawyers left a number of bugs in various rooms. They thought they were sneaky, but I saw them.”
“That is a problem.”
“I saw where they put most of them, but we probably need to do a vast search. We also have to figure out a way to make them ineffective while seeming like accidents or something natural. They’ll get suspicious otherwise.”
“Leave it to me. You handle Gibbs and I’ll take care of the various devices they left behind. It will give me practice that I haven’t gotten recently.”
“I hoped you’d say that. Let’s make sure the living room is clear and Gibbs and I can talk in there.”
“Not your TV room?”
“I figured they would have been more likely to bug that one since you said we rarely use the living room, but I’m in there all the time.”
Bishop nodded and together they searched everywhere in the living room, but Tony was correct. No devices were found. By the time, they finished searching the living room, a knock on the door was heard.
Gibbs was early. “I’ve got it, Bishop. You continue with eradicating the bugs and join us when you’re done.”
“Will do, Tony.” Bishop dropped a kiss on Tony’s cheek. “Just in case there is a bug in here we missed.” She whispered.
With that, Bishop left the room heading for the tv room first. It would be the easiest to counteract the bug. She’d done this before with other tvs. You just had to tweak the TV components to bombinate.
At the NSA, they’d figured out how to do it such that it emitted a sub-audible buzzing sound. That way humans couldn’t hear it, but it completely destroyed the ability of various listening devices to listen in. This particular method also counteracted cameras.
Bishop proceeded through the rest of the house searching each room for bugs. Not all of them were as easy to disrupt as the one in the TV den. Still there were a few that were rather easy to accidentally break.
The one in the bathroom, she was able to accidentally dump water on and watched it short out. The bedroom one she used Tony’s surround sound setup to short out. She had to admit that having soothing music as background noise often helped her fall asleep.
She left the one in Tony’s office working. He rarely used his office and they couldn’t kill all of them without suspicion. Plus that way they could control what the lawyers heard. Finally, she headed back to see what Gibbs and Tony were up to.